TIP: 205 Title: Use pkgconfig Database to Register Xft Support Version: $Revision: 1.5 $ Author: Joe English State: Final Type: Project Vote: Done Created: 23-Jun-2004 Post-History: Tcl-Version: 8.5 ~ Abstract This TIP proposes to use Tcl's package configuration database (see [59]) to register whether Tk was compiled with support for Xft. ~ Rationale As of version 8.5, Tk has optional support for Xft (the modern replacement for server-side fonts in X11). However, at present application code has no way to determine whether or not Xft support was enabled when Tk was built. The package configuration database facility introduced in [59] seems like an ideal place to record this information. ~ Proposal If Tk was configured with ''--enable-xft'', the command | tk::pkgconfig get fontsystem shall return the value '''xft'''. ~ Notes The change as currently proposed is the minimum necessary to satisfy the requirement listed in the Rationale. In particular: nothing else in Tk currently calls ''Tcl_RegisterConfig()'', so if Xft support is not enabled the '''tk::pkgconfig''' command will remain undefined. This TIP (or something like it) is a prerequisite for a script-level implementation of [145], which will need to distinguish whether or not Xft is in use. ~ Implementation See Tk Patch #976520[http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=976520] ~ Copyright This document has been placed in the public domain.